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4.0 out of 5 stars Araki a gritty Artist with a camera
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2013
Araki brings to you a strange and gritty look at Tokyo's red light district.A world that will make you blush,feel sorrow and lust with his stark B&W images.These are photos of real people in their real world jobs and professions and Araki captures it on film.The only reason for 4 stars and not 5 was the size of the book.If you have large hands this book is thick but small and can be akward to hold.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2014
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Araki brings to you a strange and gritty look at Tokyo's red light district.A world that will make you blush,feel sorrow and lust with his stark B&W images.These are photos of real people in their real world jobs and professions and Araki captures it on film.The only reason for 4 stars and not 5 was the size of the book.If you have large hands this book is thick but small and can be akward to hold.

I love this book - my previous copy went astray (someone else may be loving it now), so I wanted another, and am happy now to have a copy to dip into it (ahem) whenever I feel the need for inspiration ;)

This book is very special because it deals with a specific time frame and culture. Very interesting veiw on the Tokyo night life during this time period. Quaily photos with a special eye on sex

Excellent book, fascinating black and white photos by a great photographer. Fun to look through and a THICK volume. Great looking coffee table book too!

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The perfect gift

By Joyce Alvarez on March 9, 2021

4.0 out of 5 stars

Araki as Araki

Araki has become an international acclaimed photographer due mainly to his explicit and kinky work. Shot in black and white film with ambient and/or on-camera-flash lighting, the photographs in this book, like those of WeeGee's, have that right-into-your-face documentary attitude and honesty. They may offend some readers but they reveal lives in Tokyo's sex industry and define who the photographer is. Most established photographers would rather play the observer role and publish pictures of other people engaging in sexual activities while they themselves are actually part of the game. Araki isn't just behind the camera, he is also his own subject, he doesn't mind to tell you that he loves sex, kinky sex, commercialized sex. His work makes Helmut Newton, the "king of kink", look innocent. No matter how other people judge him, Araki at least is true to himself.

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Une pièce maitresse de l'oeuvre d'Araki

C'est toujours un plaisir de redécouvrir ce monument d'ironie, de subversion mais aussi de complicité et de "tendresse" qu'est Tokyo Lucky Hole. Araki couche ici sur le papier ses longues nuits passées dans la nuit tokyoïte des travailleuses du sexe, passées au filtre de son regard malicieux : si le sujet est grave, rien n'est jamais triste chez Araki, rien n'est jamais misérable, c'est toujours avec jubilation qu'il n'épargne au lecteur aucune découverte.

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langweilige Bilder

Schade, dass ich bei meinem letzten Besuch bei Taschen in Köln nur eine verschweiste Version vorfand. Hätte ich sie früher mal durchgeblättert, so wäre mir diese Enttäuschung erspart geblieben. Hunderte von Fotos - zu einem großen Teil nicht einmal von Menschen, alle Schwarz-Weiß, meist von hässlichen Menschen - wie ich finde. Und alles andere als pornographisch, die es das Cover und der Titel versprechen. Die Bilder sind so öde und zahm, dass sie auch in 3sat-Kulturzeit gezeigt werden könnten ohne dass sich der Pfarrer auf der Kanzel aufregen müsste.

Dissapointed both by quantity of picture and quality of the books presentation Stay clear of this volume..many better books on the subject readily available

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Photos courtesy of Taschen, spreads courtesy of Barry W. Hughes
Artist : Nobuyoshi Araki Title : Tokyo Lucky Hole Publisher : Taschen Year : 2005 BUY
When I first encountered Nobuyoshi Araki’s Tokyo Lucky Hole , my understanding of contemporary photography shifted. I use the word ‘encounter’ because one does not just read or view such a book; it is far more profound than that. If anything, it is the proverbial punch in the eye. Published by Taschen in 2005, this meaty block of a book, much like Araki himself, is a legend.
Until this point I was immersed in the colour photography of Fraser, Tillmans, Shore, Eggleston, Meyerowitz and those that mimicked or continued that aesthetic and philosophy. Their kaleidoscopic endeavours in uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, their Joycean pondering in colour seemed revolutionary and breathed new life into the banality of modern living. But along came Araki, with all his characteristic charm and unwavering acceptance of the gutter-glory of the big city.
With what is the last word on Tokyo’s pleasure district, Araki pieces together hundreds of pornographic monochrome snapshots from the 1980s, infused with moments of humour, precise poeticism and interjections of questioning scenes. Prostitutes and their pleasure-seeking salary man clients pose for the photographer and his ejaculating flash. They lie or squat while surrounded by mirrored walls, bed sheets, shower water and alcoholic antics. On each visit eyes widen, the pulse fastens and arousal heightens; this is photography as an illicit indulgence and it feels good. With each page too, still more is at hand to provoke through the imagined din of laughter and screams, howls and groans.
The milk-skinned orgies and live sex shows that invade ones brain give way to peaceful pin-up style posturing from the prostitutes in private rooms, and deep within the book there are slow blow-jobs and cocaine fuelled parties as though the bacchanalia will never end and the heaving night is eternal. Tokyo Lucky Hole is a compendium of the grotesque in all it’s unfettered, unashamed and gloriously troublesome deviancy.
The bizarre little figure that Araki cuts, silent yet ever-present in and out of shot, is the ultimate guide with blacked-out eyes and satanic moustache. His Hades-like tour of the damned leads us past cages and bondage, sliding Nuru sirens and suspended sylphs. Karaoke singers with perfected quiffs look longingly into the lens, while outside the cars crawl by on cold unfeeling streets, overlooked by grey towers that belie the bleak servitude of respectability. Tokyo Lucky Hole may appear to be hell for many, but if one were to walk through such a place, there would be no better guide and no better map.
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.7 in., 2.38 lb, 704 pages

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Japan 's sex industry in full flower. In more than 800 photos, Nobuyoshi Araki captures the sex shows, orgies, and bizarre crazes of Tokyo's Shinjuku red light district. From no-panties massage parlors to the notorious commuter-train fetishists, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia , infused with moments of humor, poetry, and questioning interjections.

Araki's tour of an erotic underworld
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman.
Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties “massage” parlor . Increasingly bizarre services followed, from fondling clients through holes in coffins to commuter-train fetishists . One particularly popular destination was a Tokyo club called “Lucky Hole” where clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other. In between them was a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy.
Taking the Lucky Hole as his title, Nobuyoshi Araki captures Japan 's sex industry in full flower , documenting in more than 800 photos the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex locales. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, the bondage and the orgies , this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections.

Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.7 in., 2.38 lb, 704 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-5638-5 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

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Si potrebbe provare, ma si rischierebbe una descrizione inaccurata o incompleta, oppure superficiale. Oltrechè soggettiva.
Da vedere e valutare personalmente.
This is a book that I liked slightly less than most of the books I have read from Bibliotheca Universalis, however, still one that I would recommend due to it being a good historical document and of good quality. Araki is one of the biggest Japanese photographers and this book will be enjoyed very much by fans of Moriyama and Tomatsu.
This is a wonderful book! Absolutely must have! Araki is a genius!
Extraordinary raw photographs of an unknown side to Japan. An incredible access to a hidden world without artifact or censor. The photographer does not impose on the scene.
This book is a gold mine for Araki’s work! The collection is very rich.
Japanese mindest and twist all in these pages. On my coffee table.
I respect the work that Araki does and his work ethic and volume of work is second to none. However, this book could use A LOT of editing. After a while it feels like you're flipping through a porn mag. Perhaps that's his intent? Nevertheless, this one stays in a drawer rather than on the shelf with my other books.
Time-machine book in the ‘good old Tokyo times’.
A good value. great pictures of ‘crazy’ Araki-san in a very handy high quality book format.
Art for the adults! Interesting book on a very interesting topic.
Absolutely incredible book, one can find his/hers own favorite moment within it.

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